{"id":538205,"date":"2026-03-15T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538205\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:13:09","slug":"driver-flees-after-crashing-into-pole-on-bathurst-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538205\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver flees after crashing into pole on Bathurst Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 8:52AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 7:42AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are searching for a driver who fled the scene after a vehicle crashed into a pole early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2033128594642182581?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPSOperations\/status\/2033128594642182581?s=20\">Toronto police say<\/a> the collision happened at around 6:04 a.m. in the area of Bathurst Street and Avenal Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrived to find a vehicle that had struck a pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the driver left the area on foot and remains outstanding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QGC5XKVQBRBWBH66RRIH62FD3Q.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>tps Police searching for a driver who crashed into a pole on Sunday March 15, 2026 (CP24 photo) . <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Injuries, if any, are currently unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a result, Bathurst Street was temporarily closed in both directions between Avenal Drive and Avenue Road. However, shortly before 9 a.m., officials said all roads have reopened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 8:52AM EDT Published:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 7:42AM EDT Police are searching for a driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-538205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}